Sentences with phrase «high infant mortality rates»

This is partly the result of higher infant mortality rates.

Some of those factors included a decline in birth rates corresponding with higher infant mortality rates, the discovery of vaccines, and a rise in hospital births.

The Colonial Period was marked by high infant mortality rates.

Given this country's disproportionately high infant mortality rate, such a guide is urgently needed.

So they looked at people who'd been born in states with high infant mortality rates — an indicator of social problems like poverty and limited access to medical care.

We have a really high infant mortality rate due to Asthma.

Marc Morano: But when you don't need to have as many kids because they don't survive a childhood you tend to have less kids if you're not thinking I need to have X amount because high infant mortality rates, which is what we're seeing around the world which are...

Much of this country «s intolerably high infant mortality rate is inextricably linked to the fact this country has the highest adolescent pregnancy rate of any industralized nation.

During the 1930s, Finland had very high infant mortality rates.

A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.

The city has consistently maintained higher infant mortality rates than the state, but the disparities in infant mortality appear to have grown over the past two years for which data was available — 2013 and 2014.

The federal Healthy Start initiative, funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) addresses racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes by supporting projects in communities that experience high infant mortality rates.

Located in impoverished areas with high infant mortality rates and few health care care providers, health centers offer a full range of medical services, including dentistry and mental health and substance abuse treatment, to more than 24 million patients.

As a country we have the highest infant mortality rate in ALL the developed countries.

We spend 40 % more of our GDP on health care than any other country and we have the lowest life expectancy and highest infant mortality rate of any advanced country.

We have the poor American city's high infant mortality rates, the high AIDS rates, the high crime rates.

This is a higher infant mortality rate than Cuba.

Drop - side cribs should be avoided and due to their high infant mortality rate, they are actually banned by the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The high infant mortality rate among black infants is mostly to their being disproportionately born too small, too sick or too soon.

«Already in the United States, breastfeeding duration is lower than recommended, moms are not meeting their goals, and studies show that lack of breastfeeding is a contributing factor in high infant mortality rates.»

Did you know Haiti has the highest infant mortality rate in the Western Hemisphere?

Additionally, according to the Center for Disease Control, the U.S. has one of the highest infant mortality rates among industrialized countries.

But if these interventions were so fabulous, why does the U.S. have one of the highest infant mortality rate of industrialized countries?

Ohio has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the country, and the number of babies dying from sleep - related causes has actually increased in recent years.

Vitamin and mineral deficiencies were common in infants years ago as were illness and higher infant mortality rates.

Sierra Leone has the highest infant mortality rate in the world, in part fueled by malnutrition.

This practice also contributes to the high infant mortality rates in this country.»

Also, waiting until labor protects the baby from a possibility of an early birth (late prematurity) which is related to a higher infant mortality rate in the first year.

«Business of Being Born»: «While the United States has perhaps the most advanced health care system in the world, it also has the second - highest infant mortality rate of any industrialized nation.»

Since then she has worked to eliminate the high infant mortality rate for babies of color, through advocacy and policy.

TUH is located in North Philadelphia, an area that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the United States with many babies born into poverty and to young mothers who do not have adequate resources to care for a newborn.

Shafia M. Monroe, LM became a homebirth midwife in 1978, after learning of the high infant mortality rate in her hometown, Boston, MA.

TUH is located in North Philadelphia, an area that has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the United States with many babies born into poverty and to young mothers who do not have adequate resources to care for a newborn.

The Tsimané's distinctive child - rearing styles may stem from a sobering reason: a high infant mortality rate.

Promoting safe sleep practices in hospitals and communities, and preventing and treating chronic conditions before and between pregnancies are just some of the steps that can be taken to address the higher infant mortality rates in the U.S. South.

According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, out of 13 industrialized nations, the United States is last when it comes to the most years of life lost for adults and the highest infant mortality rate.

The countries with the lowest quality of life have more children in their population and also a higher infant mortality rate.

We suffer high levels of mental illness and high infant mortality rates.